Now showing at LUMA Arles: David Armstrong, Liu Chuang, Maria Lassnig, Philippe Parreno, and Tony Oursler
Tai Shani
Artist
Tai Shani’s artistic practice, comprising performance, film, photography, and installation, uses experimental writing as a guiding method. Oscillating between theoretical concepts and visceral details, Shani’s texts attempt to create poetic coordinates in order to cultivate, fragmentary cosmologies of marginalized nonsovereignty. Taking cues from both mournful and undead histories of reproductive labour, illness and solidarity, her work is invested in recovering feminised aesthetic modes – such as the floral, the trippy or the gothic – in a register of utopian militancy. In this vein, the epic, in both its literary long-form and excessive affect, often shapes Shani’s approach. Extending into divergent formats and collaborations. Shani’s projects examine desire in its (infra-)structural dimension, exploring a realism that materially fantasises against the patriarchal racial capitalist present. Tai Shani is the joint 2019 Turner Prize winner together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. Her work has been shown extensively in Britain and internationally.
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Symposium: Tales of Superstition and Magic
Alexis Bard Johnson ,
Carlo A. Célius ,
Gaëlle Choisne ,
Inès Di Folco Jemni ,
Johanna Hedva ,
Daniela Jacob Pinto ,
Low Lov ,
Daniele Morelli ,
Kettly Noël ,
Judith Noble ,
Romain Noël ,
Hans Ulrich Obrist ,
Julien Princesse Didier ,
P. Staff ,
Stéphanie Seidel ,
Tai Shani ,
Ariane Temkine ,
Suzanne Treister
From 12 December 2025 to 14 December 2025
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